Thesis (M.A.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-136). Also available via the World Wide Web.

When he opened the 24th annual exhibition of students' work on the 1st July, 1927, Professor F.W. Armstrong gave the following account of the beginnings of the Grahamstown School of Art: ... The appointment of a master was the responsibility of Sir Langham Dale, the Superintendent General of Education in the Cape Colony. His choice for the first art master of the Grahamstown School of Art was Mr.W. H. Simpson. Simpson had studied at the South Kensington Museum then at the Royal Academy. During the 1870's he had exhibited in the Royal Academy, at other exhibitions in London, and in the provinces. Intro. p. 1.

De l’Alhambra au palais Fronteira, l’azulejo a transcendé les frontières et les siècles. Habillant les murs d’églises, de palais et de patios, il constitue non seulement une pratique ornementale représentative des goûts et des mentalités d’une époque mais aussi l’expression d’un savoir-faire développé par des faïenciers qui n’ont eu de cesse de perfectionner le geste et l’objet. Jamais appréhendé à la lumière du règne des Philippe, l’azulejo et ses artisans ont évolué au rythme des vicissitudes d’une époque mais aussi en fonction d’un contexte artistique synonyme d’échanges, de circulations et de transferts. Des difficultés économiques aux guerres dynastiques, l’azulejo a été conditionné dans sa matière et dans sa forme par les événements. La réunion des royaumes du Portugal et de Castille en 1580 engendra ainsi de nouvelles possibilités commerciales pour la production de ces carreaux de faïence mais aussi l’apport de nouvelles formules ornementales plus exotiques à l’origine d’un renouvellement des répertoires. La mise en regard des ateliers de Lisbonne, Talavera de la Reina et Séville fait ainsi émerger de nouvelles problématiques dans les processus de création de cet objet ornant et orné, et dans la définition de ces artisans désignés sous les expressions d’ollero, alfarero, malegueiro, maestro en azulejo, pintor de azulejos – une pratique en porte-à-faux entre les sphères artistiques et artisanales. L’alliance des perspectives historiques, culturelles et artistiques permet d’aborder les différentes facettes de l’azulejo, un art enraciné dans son temps et témoin d’échanges. / From the Alhambra to the palace of Fronteira, the azulejo has transcended borders and centuries. Applied on the walls of churches, palaces and patios, ceramic tiles constitute an ornamental art form that reveals esthetic and culture values of a certain time. It is also the expression of a savoir-faire developed by faience makers who were constantly trying to improve the techniques of tile work. Never analyzed in relation to the reign of the Philips, the azulejo and the faience makers have evolved along with the trials and tribulations of an era, where the artistic context was characterized by travels and exchanges. Historical events such as economic crisis and dynastic wars, had conditioned the azulejo in its physical and aesthetic forms. The alliance of the kingdom of Portugal and the kingdom of Castile in 1580, opened up new roads for commercial exchanges while influencing the production of ceramic tile work, as it lead to the renewal of ornamental patterns. The definition of these craftsmen is technically difficult and shows a real imprecision to designate them. Ollero, alfarero, malagueiro, maestro en azulejo, pintor de azulejos, are terms that refer to a creative process where the arts and crafts intersect. The comparative study of the workshops of Lisbon, Talavera de la Reina and Seville was a way to highlight new issues, while bringing together historical, cultural and artistic perspectives that help one to grasp the various aspects of the azulejo.

A discussion of the concept of worldview shows that how an artist conceives the world in his images is governed by his worldview - an amalgam of the worldview of the group of which he is a part modified by his own ideas, beliefs, attitudes, perceptions and upbringing. The author proposes that studying an artist's work can reveal his, and hence his group's, worldview and thus the attitudes prevalent when the work was produced. A brief historical sketch of the Eastern Cape to 1834 introduces the various settlers in the area. Though no known examples of Black, Boer or Khoi pictorial art are extant, both the Bushmen and the British left such records. A short analysis of rock art shows how the worldview of the Bushman is inherent in their images which reflect man's world as seen with the "inner" eye of the spirit. In white settler art, the author submits that spatial relationships changed in response to a growing confidence as the "savage" land was "civilised" and that the position, pose and size of figures - and the inclusion or exclusion of certain groups - reflect socio-political changes. The two foremost nineteenth-century Eastern Cape artists, Thomas Baines and Frederick I'Ons, succeeded in capturing the atmosphere of Frontier life but are shown to interpret their surroundings through the rose-tinted spectacles of British Romanticism. They also reveal individuality in approach - Baines preferring expansive views while I'Ons's landscapes tend to be "closed-in", strictly following the coulisse scheme of Picturesque painting. Perhaps, the author postulates, such differences result from the very different environments, i.e. Norfolk and London, in which the two grew up. I'Ons is shown typically to use generalised landscapes as backdrops for his foreground figures, while comparing Baines's scenes with modern photographs shows that he adjusted the spacial elements of the topography as well as the temporal sequence of events to suit aesthetic considerations. Lithographed reports of his work contain even further adjustments. The author concludes that the use of Africana art as historical records must be treated with great caution.

By researching the life and work of Thomas Baines (1820 - 1875) in relation to a broader discourse of painting and the lived experience of being a 'white' male in a post-apartheid South Africa, I explore the ways in which this figure from the past has provoked the three series of artworks I have produced for my Master of Fine Art exhibition. This study has been divided into two parts, represented by the two chapters contained herein. Chapter One includes a critical retelling of Baines' biography and a discussion of the primary ways in which I have engaged with both the life and the working practice of this artist. I also address my own personal complicity in the constructions of 'the figure of Baines' as I have framed him both visually and textually during my work for this degree. Chapter Two describes some of the practicalities of my working process as a visual artist, including how I understand the theoretical and conceptual concerns which I raise in Chapter One to be visually manifest in my work. In this chapter, I also discuss my work in relation to the work of the contemporary South African artists William Kentridge and Johannes Phokela. The artistic practice of one artist imitating another artist's work is also explored as a central conceptual thread which could be seen to weave my verbal and visual production together.

The diploma thesis is divided into three parts to meet the requirements of the Department of Art Education. The main part consists of an artistic - historical chapter, which discusses the phenomenon of painting in the Iron Mountains as a place for the development of landscape painting at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. The work focuses on the analysis of landscape motifs in a given locality. He compares the motifs that inspired painters and seeks their connection to the work of other painters and puts them in the context of open-air painting. The chapter deals in detail with five painters, other painters are mentioned marginally due to the need for context. The choice of motifs does not differ from the motifs painted in other areas. The specificity of painting in the Iron Mountains lies in the simplicity of the landscape and its colors. The motifs here are mainly rivers, the Iron Mountains, rural cottages around Ronov nad Doubravou, Kraskov, and last but not least in stonehouses. Other motifs include motifs with a path, ponds, especially the Utopenec pond near Ronov nad Doubravou, Lichnice castle. The painters often take over the composition of the paintings from their predecessors. The next part - comments, represent their own work based on a comparison of the motif of the images created...

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Cette thèse, qui croise l'oeuvre de Jean Cocteau avec la culture italienne, a un double but. D’une part, il s’agit de retracer les éléments qui ont contribué à donner vie à la partie italienne de l'imaginaire du poète, au cours de ses séjours dans la Péninsule. D’autre part, elle vise à faire connaître le point de vue italien sur sa présence dans le pays, en particulier pour ce qui concerne ses films et sa réflexion critique. Elle s'articule en trois parties. Dans la première, il s'agit de détecter comment l'imaginaire italien de Cocteau est né, ainsi que de retracer l'historique des relations qu'il a entretenues avec l’Italie. Dans la deuxième partie, elle aborde le domaine cinématographique dans sa spécificité, également sousun double aspect. D'une part, à travers l'analyse des commentaires que Cocteau a écrits après sa découverte des films italiens, pour pouvoir dégager sa conception de ce cinéma sous une forme générale, et comprendre son intérêt pour certains de ses protagonistes en particulier. D'autre part, elle retrace et analyse la place que la presse spécialisée italienne a accordé à son oeuvre dans l’univers cinématographique du Bel Paese. Enfin, la troisième partie examine les liens concrets que Cocteau a noués avec trois cinéastes italiens : Roberto Rossellini pour l’adaptation cinématographique de La Voix humaine; Luciano Emmer, pour la rédaction et la lecture des commentaires français de Venise et ses amants et de La Légende de Sainte Ursule; enfin Michelangelo Antonioni pour la réalisation de son Mystère d'Oberwald, adaptation de la pièce de théâtre L'Aigle à deux têtes. / This thesis which confronts Jean Cocteau's work with Italian culture has a double aim. On the one hand, it aims at exploring the elements which contributed to giving life to the Italian side of the poet's imagination during his various stays in Italy. On the other hand, it aims at giving a better understanding of the Italian point of view about his presence in the country, especially concerning his films and his critical thoughts. The thesis hinges on three parts. The first one deals with the ways in which Cocteau's Italian imagination originated and puts in a historical perspective the different stages in the relationshipswith the country. The second part is about Cocteau's cinema proper, in a twofold aspect as well .The first one analyzes the commentaries Cocteau wrote after his discovery of Italian films. This allows us to give a better view of the way he conceived this form of cinema in general, and understand his interest for some of its protagonists in particular. The second aspect analyzes the place the Italian press granted to his work in the film production of the « Bel Paese ». The third part looks into the bonds of friendship Cocteau built up with three Italian directors : Roberto Rossellini for the screen adaptation of La Voix humaine ; Luciano Emmer for the French written commentaries and their reading of Venise et ses amants and of La Légende de Sainte Ursule ; and last Michelangelo Antonioni for the direction of Le Mystère d'Oberwald, an adaptation of the play L'Aigle à deux têtes.

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar aspectos da trajetória de Virgílio Maurício (1892-1937), sobretudo, no que diz respeito à sua atuação artística. Intelectual polígrafo, Maurício teve diversas ocupações, atuando no campo da pintura, da crítica de arte e da medicina. Na passagem do século XIX para o XX, Maurício iniciou seus estudos em arte, sendo premiado pouco tempo depois no Salon da Société des Artistes Français, de 1913, com uma pintura de nu feminino. Intensamente referenciado na imprensa de seu tempo, seu nome não subsistiu à resistência dos pares. Sobre Maurício eram imputadas severas acusações, sobretudo, a de não ser o autor de suas obras. A sua atuação abriu claramente o debate sobre a moralidade artística e a questão da disputa por posições no cenário artístico nacional. Sua produção ainda forneceu elementos para se pensar os modelos de representação do corpo feminino, assim como as recomendações direcionadas ao corpo da mulher, instituídas pela medicina eugenista no século XX. / This dissertation aims to analyze aspects of Virgílio Maurício\'s trajectory (1892-1937), especially with regard to his artistic performance. Intellectual polygraph, Maurício had various occupations, working in the field of painting, art criticism and medicine. In the late nineteenth century to the twentieth, Maurício began his studies in art, being awarded a short time later at the Salon Salon da Société des Artistes Français, in 1913, with a female nude painting. Heavily referenced in the press of this time, his name does not outlived due to the resistance of his pairs. About Maurício severe accusations were attributed primarily to not being the author of his works. His performance clearly opened the debate about artistic morality and the question of competition for positions in the national art scene. His production also provided elements to think about the female body representation models, as well as recommendations directed to the woman\'s body, established by eugenic medicine in the twentieth century.

Esquisser le portrait de la commaunauté des peintres lyonnais, entre le début du règne de Louis XI (1461) et la crise de la fin des années 1520, a constitué le présupposé de cette recherche. Le recours aux sources (comptables, fiscales et ecclésiastiques) s’est révélé indispensable à l’étude prosopographique et à une démarche d’histoire sociale de l’art, permettant la localisation des peintres, de leurs ateliers, les quelques filiations, leur place enfin (fortune et position sociale) dans la cité. Mais au-delà de cette première approche, l’étude des commanditaires, personnages capitals de la production artistique, a permis de définir plus finement le visage de la pratique picturale lyonnaise. Entre notables, Consulat, ecclésiastiques et rois, les activités de commande dans la ville ont souligné l’absence de grands chantiers et de grandes commandes dans ces décennies de prospérité croissante. Ce sont donc les fêtes, au premier rang desquelles les entrées royales et solennelles, qui mobilisent les forces économiques, littéraires et évidemment artistiques. L’étude des protagonistes de ces cérémonies royales et urbaines comme des thèmes déployés permet de caractériser de façon plus précise l’articulation entre artistes, commanditaires et cité comme d’approfondir la connaissance sur la pratique des peintres, en effet mieux détaillée dans ce cadre. / To sketch the portrait of the painters’ community of Lyon, between the beginning of the reign of Louis XI (1461) and the crisis of the end of 1520s, was the presupposition of this research. The appeal to sources (accounts, taxes and from ecclesiastic origin) showed itself essential to the study of painters and to the approach of social history of the art, allowing the location of them, their workshops, the some filiations, their place finally (fortune and social position) in the city. But beyond this first approach, the study of the patrons, major characters of the artistic production, allowed to define more finely the face of the pictorial practice of Lyon. Between notables, consuls, Consulate, clerics and kings, the activities of command in the city underlined the absence of big construction sites and big orders in these decades of increasing prosperity. They are thus the festivals, in the front row of which the royal and solemn entries, which mobilize the economic, literary and obviously artistic strengths. The study of the protagonists of these royal and urban ceremonies as spread themes allows to characterize in a more precise way the articulation between artists, patrons and city as to deepen the knowledge on the practice of the painters, indeed better known by this way.